Re: Boot poster challenge

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre solution-forge net>]

søn, 21.11.2004 kl. 21.31 skrev Arjan van de Ven:
> > > yeah we saw that; sorting the list on disk sector shaved 2 seconds off...
> > > if we want to save more we'll have to fix the on disk layout to be less
> > > spread out. That's not going to be fun...
> > 
> > Is there any way to have a "pre-cooked" swap image of all the files you need  
> > so that when you boot you can swap it all in in one big contiguous read  
> > instead of having to read file by file?
> 
> not currently; file contents also never hits swap, it would require like
> a full vm subsystem rewrite to achieve this. It's probably a lot easier
> to either write some defrag tool that can move stuff, or to make a
> hidden automatic buffer in the fs
> 
Hmm... I thougth there was no "defrag.ext3" in Linux because it wasn't
neccesary. Was i wrong?